Units of twisted group rings and their correlations to classical group rings

MaRDI QIDQ6507785arXivFDO

Authors Geoffrey Janssens, Eric Jespers, Ofir Schnabel

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orders in separable algebras (16H10) Units, groups of units (associative rings and algebras) (16U60) Twisted and skew group rings, crossed products (16S35) Projective representations and multipliers (20C25)

Abstract: This paper contributes to the classical problem of extracting properties of a finite group $G$ from the ring isomorphism class of its integral group ring $mathbbZG$. This problem is considered via describing the unit group $mathcalU(mathbbZG)$ generically for a finite group. Concretely we obtain a new generic construction of units in $S{L}_1(mathbbZG)$ which are proven to extend, for natural classes of groups, with infinite index the current known constructions. Moreover this new construction also exhibits new properties, such as providing generically free subgroups of large rank. As an application we answer positively for several classes of groups the strongest form of the recent conjectures on the rank and torsion of the abelianisation $mathcalU(mathbbZG{)}^{ab}$. To obtain all this, we investigate the group ring $RGamma$ of an extension $Gamma$ of some normal subgroup $N$ by a group $G$, over a domain $R$. More precisely, we obtain a direct sum decomposition in terms of various twisted group rings of $G$ and concrete information on the kernel and cokernel of the associated projections. Along the way we also launch the investigations of the unit group of twisted group rings and of $mathcalU(RGamma)$ via twisted group rings.

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